Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . ume of business transacted in the localclearing house is about $250,000,000 per year. Well, said the Girl, with a sigh of relief, Im glad you didnt go intothe subject any more fully, and I dont remember a single one of your oldtotals. What I want to know is, what kind of a place is it to live in ? Im sure I scarcely know how to answer, replied the Colonel, who wassomewhat disconcerted at the effect his statistics had produced upon hisdaughter. Its a very charming city, with a compa
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . ume of business transacted in the localclearing house is about $250,000,000 per year. Well, said the Girl, with a sigh of relief, Im glad you didnt go intothe subject any more fully, and I dont remember a single one of your oldtotals. What I want to know is, what kind of a place is it to live in ? Im sure I scarcely know how to answer, replied the Colonel, who wassomewhat disconcerted at the effect his statistics had produced upon hisdaughter. Its a very charming city, with a compact, handsomely builtbusiness center, and lovely residence streets stretching into delightful sub-urbs. It has the finest system of electric street railways, electric lights,and water and sewage systems you will find anywhere. There are a greatmany delightful places of resort about the city, and its people are cultivatedand hospitable. Now what else could I say? Not a thing, said the Girl, laughingly; you have done splendidly,papa, and in spite of your dry statistics I believe I wouldnt mind living CHAPTER IX. SAN ANTONIO ITS OLD-TIME INTEREST AND LATTER-DAY PROGRESS THE MISSIONS THE IJIRTH OK THE OPAL. IT was part of our plan to stop over a day in San Antonio. The San Antonio,, , , , 1 ? 1 1 1 • II • 1 57 miles from Growler had protested that it would be just as well to go right New Orleans, through as to devote but a day to the most beautitul city in all the long feet.^ stretch of country between New Orleans and Los Angeles, but the Colonel, while he acquiesced in all the Growler said as to the fascinations of the place, protested that it was much better to make a hurried inspection than to see nothing. • \\e will lose no time, said he, and putting this resolution into practice, he had a carriage at the door of our hotel almost as soon as the affableclerk had assigned us to our rooms. Where away ? he inquired. To the Missions ! exclaimed the Girl. \\e assente
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